We've Been Building an AI Product Content Platform in Public. Today, We're Opening the Doors to Everyone.

LONDON, 2nd March 2026 For the past several months, we’ve been sharing the journey of building merchi.ai publicly - the technical decisions, the mistakes, the architecture choices that keep us up at night. If you’ve been following along, you know what we’re building and why. Today’s announcement is the one we’ve been working toward: merchi.ai is now open to everyone, with a 30-day free trial and no strings attached.

Why this matters

When we started merchi.ai, the onboarding process was manual. Every new account required a demo call, a setup conversation, and hand-holding through configuration. That made sense early on, we learned an enormous amount from those conversations. But it also meant that a small retailer in Tokyo, or a DTC brand founder working at midnight, couldn’t just sign up and try the product.

That changes today. You can go to app.merchi.ai/30-day-free-trial, create an account, and start generating product content within minutes. No demo call. No salesperson. No credit card. Just 20 credits and 30 days to decide if merchi.ai solves your product content problem.

What you get with the free trial

The trial isn’t a stripped-down demo. It’s the real platform:

• 20 credits to generate product content (1 credit per product, 1 per AI image, 1 per background removal, 1 per web scrape)
• 3 Writing Assets to configure your brand voice, taxonomy, and content rules
• 10 Schema Blocks to define exactly what content you want generated (titles, descriptions, bullet points, attributes — whatever your product pages need)
• 3 images per product for the AI to analyze
• 1 language to start (paid plans unlock 30+)

Twenty credits is enough to process 20 products and see real output. If your product listings look better than what you’ve been producing manually, and we’re confident they will. Upgrading is straightforward.

The paid plans, briefly

We deliberately kept pricing simple. If you’re a small business, the Basic plan at £99/month gives you 25 credits per month, 2 languages, CSV export, and expanded Writing Assets. If you’re a growing team, the Professional plan at £599/month adds 125 monthly credits, 5 users, 4 languages, workflow management, product analytics, and e-commerce integrations. Enterprise is custom.

You can see the full breakdown at merchi.ai/pricing. Monthly and yearly billing are both available, with yearly saving roughly 15%.

Why we built self-serve this way

A few principles guided the self-serve design:

1. No obligation means no obligation. The trial doesn’t ask for a credit card. It doesn’t auto-convert to a paid plan. When your 30 days are up, your account and data remain accessible, you just can’t generate new content until you choose a plan.
2. The product should sell itself. If someone uploads product images and the AI-generated content isn’t good enough to justify paying for, we haven’t earned the sale. Every free trial is a bet on our own output quality.
3. Small businesses shouldn’t need enterprise sales processes. A one-person brand selling handmade ceramics has the same content problem as a retailer with 50,000 SKUs. The platform should be accessible to both without gatekeeping.

What’s next

Self-serve is a milestone, not the finish line. We’re actively building e-commerce integrations (Shopify and WooCommerce are high on the list), expanding our API for programmatic access, and continuing to improve the AI models that power content generation. If you’ve been following the building in public series, you know we’ll keep sharing the journey.

If you work in retail, e-commerce, or product content - give it a try. Twenty credits and thirty days. No pitch, no pressure. Just upload a product image and see what comes back.

Sign up at app.merchi.ai/30-day-free-trial